Israel State Archives
Top Secret Israel State Archives

Five years after requesting access to documents looted from Palestinian institutions during the 1948 war, the Israel State Archives provided historian Shay Hazkani with a list of files which will remain concealed until 2040 in the name of national security. Some of these files detail pre-1948 plans for an independent Palestinian state.

Category: DOCUMENTS

Title: Documents looted from the Palestinian political institutions remain locked in the Israel State Archives until 2040, Haaretz, “Who’s Afraid to Reveal the Palestinian ‘Secrets’ of 1948?”

Date of publication: December 4, 2022

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